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Yesterday, Onet published a big article about Robert Lewandowski and his education. Here’s translation:
Robert Lewandowski was supposed to do his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in secret from the world at a university in Łódź linked to a scientist suspected of trading in diplomas. Now new information is coming to light. - I have not seen him in front of my eyes during my exams, yet from the documents I was shown during the interrogation it appears that he passed my subject twice" - Barbara Mrozinska, a sociologist from Łódź who was previously linked to the university where the captain of the Polish national team was supposed to get his diploma, tells Onet.
Robert Lewandowski, captain of the Polish national football team and striker of the famous Barcelona, had his higher education for 13 years. This is according to official information that he himself has made public. It is known that he started his studies as a 19-year-old in 2007 and only after ten years, in 2017, he obtained his bachelor’s degree. In turn, he defended his master’s thesis in 2020, which was quickly reported by the national media. He obtained both of these diplomas in Warsaw at the College of Education in Sport. This education is not disputed by anyone.
However, two other diplomas were issued in the name of the famous footballer: a bachelor’s and a master’s degree. He was to obtain them at a private university in Łódź, in great secrecy from the world. He would defend his master’s degree during a video conference during Adam Nawałka’s 2018 national team training camp. In addition, both diplomas would be awarded while he was laboriously studying at the aforementioned university in Warsaw, where, let us remind you, it took him as long as 13 years to study.
Could it be that the famous Polish footballer had so much time to pull two courses of study at two different universities in Łódź and Warsaw in between his numerous matches, training sessions, business activities and private life?
Our source in law enforcement familiar with the backstory of the diploma affair, in which Lewandowski’s name appears, indicates that after ‘Lewy’ got his diplomas in Łódź without studying, the footballer chickened out and never made them public.
- The driving force behind Robert getting his diplomas in Łódź quickly and painlessly was supposed to be his wife Ania. She wanted her husband, after he started his studies in Warsaw in 2007 and was unable to finish them for years, to nevertheless have a higher education and be able to go to a coaching school, for example, in the future. The opportunity to get the diplomas became an acquaintance with Zbigniew D., a scholar from Łódź and also a football activist, who was known in the sports community for being able to arrange, among other things, certificates from the university of which he was the chancellor, our informant points out.
- Robert received both diplomas from Łódź through connections, but at some point realised that lies have short legs, and precautionarily never showed these papers off. After all, it would look strange if it turned out that he had been studying in Warsaw for 13 years with all his sweat and all of a sudden he got two diplomas in Łódź. The upshot was that he legally completed the studies he had long ago started in Warsaw, and the diplomas from Łódź were to remain a big secret to a small group of people," argues an Onet source in law enforcement agencies.
The former chancellor and the secrets of his phone
The mystery of Lewandowski’s Łódź degrees has finally come to light by accident. As we wrote in Onet, in 2019, the police arrested Zbigniew D., a scientist from Łódź, in the act. In the past, which is not insignificant in this story, he was a football activist of ŁKS Łódź, he met many famous athletes, in fact, one of his sons played football competitively. Later, he and his wife did their habilitation in Slovakia, which still raises questions in the scientific community in Łódź.
Five years ago, Zbigniew D. fell for trying to sell a diploma from the university of which he was the chancellor - this was the now defunct University of Health Education and Social Sciences (WSEZiNS) in Łódź. He fell during a police provocation - he wanted to sell the diploma to a woman who was honest and had previously reported the matter to the police. Officers detained the scientist, secured his phone at the time and discovered surprising information in it.
It turned out that several years ago Zbigniew D. had been in a lively correspondence with Anna Lewandowska and with other athletes and their representatives. He had talked to them about supplementing their education.
Among other things, a copy of a master’s degree in pedagogy issued to Robert Lewandowski with the signature of the rector of the Łódź university - Zbigniew D’s wife - was found at the scientist from Łódź in 2019.
Also found were documents issued in the name of Jacek Góralski (former Polish national team player): a copy of his identity card, a secondary school certificate and a bachelor’s degree… in Adventist theology supposedly issued by a private university from near Warsaw. This bachelor’s degree would be defended by Góralski with an 5/5 in October 2017, on the day of Adam Nawałka’s national team’s qualifying match against Montenegro. Poland won 4:2, with Góralski watching the entire match from the substitutes’ bench.
A copy of the matura diplom for Arkadiusz Milik, translated into Italian and English, was also found.
Góralski and Milik later denied that they had received any diplomas through Zbigniew D…
The Łódź university WSEZiNS, at which Lewandowski was supposed to have obtained his bachelor’s degree and of which Zbigniew D. was chancellor, no longer exists. The University of Social Sciences (UNS) has been operating at the same address in Łódź for years - Zbigniew D. became a lecturer there, his wife was the rector, and his son first became the chancellor and now serves as rector. It was at UNS, which was started to be managed by the closest family of the suspected ex-chancellor, that “Lewy” would continue his education in Łódź and complete his master’s degree. And it was this university that, after our 2021 texts, sued Onet and the author of this text.
The Łódź University of Social Sciences is demanding an apology from us, a donation of PLN 30,000 to a social cause and argues that Robert Lewandowski is its graduate and that he obtained his diplomas in Lodz in a legal manner.
Are we sure?
“Lewandowski was supposed to pass two exams with me. I have not seen him with my eyes.”
Unexpectedly, a few days ago, Dr Barbara Mrozińska spoke out on this issue. She is a sociologist from Łódź and the head of a private television station. As it turns out, she has recently been questioned by investigators from Gdańsk, who have been explaining the diploma affair involving Zbigniew D. since 2019 and in which the names of leading Polish footballers are mentioned.
“Robert Lewandowski bought his diploma at a private university in Łódź. I write this with full responsibility, because he ‘passed’ two exams with me. I found out about everything during my interrogation as a witness in this disgusting case”. - Dr Barbara Mrozińska wrote on the X platform.
We called her. As she pointed out, the matter is public, and she spoke up on Platform X out of a sense of decency. On the grounds that many of her students had to work hard to get a degree. First to come at weekends to take part-time classes, and then to pass the not-so-easy exams with her.
Dr Mrozińska taught social research methodology at the now defunct College of Health Education and Social Sciences, of which Zbigniew D., was chancellor.
With her entry and statements for Onet, the sociologist refutes the version of the Łódź university that the captain of the national football team legally obtained two diplomas at the university.
Barbara Mrozińska told us that she had never seen Lewandowski either in classes or in exams. And she would have to have seen if he was in fact her student. Meanwhile, at an interview last month, she found out that she was supposed to have examined the famous footballer. And twice: during his undergraduate and graduate studies.
Every time, the ‘Lewy’ was supposed to get “threes” with her, maybe because she had a lot of demands on her students. In the online documents, next to the grades in her subjects, her signature was not present. It is not known who entered these grades into the electronic system behind her back. Instead, Dr Mrozińska kept paper attendance records for her classes. She never recorded the attendance of student Robert Lewandowski.
According to the electronic entries that Dr Mrozińska saw, at other lecturers in Łódź, the striker had better grades, including fours plus and fives.
- If he had taken an exam with me, he would have had to come to me. Meanwhile, his grade card showed that he passed two subjects with me, which was definitely not the case, I would remember such a well-known student," emphasises Barbara Mrozińska.
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